Oil culture [[electronic resource] /] / Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden, editors

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (459 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.2/72820973
• Soggetto topico: Petroleum industry and trade - United States - History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Social and customs History
• Persona (resp. second.): BarrettRoss <1977->; WordenDaniel <1978->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: OIL'S ORIGINS OF MODERNIZATION; 1 Whale Oil Culture, Consumerism, and Modern Conservation; 2 The Wizard of Oil: Abraham James, the Harmonial Wells, and the Psychometric History of the Oil Industry; 3 Picturing a Crude Past: Primitivism, Public Art, and Corporate Oil Promotion in the United States; 4 A Short History of Oil Cultures; or, The Marriage of Catastrophe and Exuberance; PART II: OIL'S GOLDEN AGE: LITERATURE, FILM, AND PROPAGANDA; 5 Essential Driving and Vital Cars: American Automobile Culture in World War II ; 6 Fossil- Fuel Futurity: Oil in Giant7 "Liquid Modernity": Sundown in Pawhuska, Oklahoma; 8 From Isfahan to Ingolstadt: Bertolucci's La via del petrolio and the Global Culture of Neorealism; PART III: THE LOCAL AND GLOBAL TERRITORIES OF OIL; 9 Aramco's Frontier Story: The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Saudi Arabia; 10 Oil Frontiers: The Niger Delta and the Gulf of Mexico; 11 Petro-Magic-Realism Revisited: Unimagining and Reimagining the Niger Delta; 12 Refined Politics: Petroleum Products, Neoliberalism, and the Ecology of Entrepreneurial Life ; 13 Gendering Oil: Tracing Western Petrosexual RelationsPART IV: EXHIBITING OIL; 14 Mixing Oil and Water: Naturalizing Offshore Oil Platforms in American Aquariums; 15 Petroaesthetics and Landscape Photography: New Topographics, Edward Burtynsky, and the Culture of Peak Oil; 16 Fossil, Fuel: Manifesto for the Post- Oil Museum; PART V: THE FUTURE OF AND WITHOUT OIL; 17 Retrofutures and Petrofutures: Oil, Scarcity, Limit; 18 Crude Aesthetics: The Politics of Oil Documentaries; 19 Oil and Dust: Theorizing Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia; 20 Imagining Angels on the Gulf; Contributors; Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In the 150 years since the birth of the petroleum industry oil has saturated our culture, fueling our cars and wars, our economy and policies. But just as thoroughly, culture saturates oil. So what exactlyis"oil culture"? This book pursues an answer through petrocapitalism's history in literature, film, fine art, wartime propaganda, and museum displays. Investigating cultural discourses that have taken shape around oil, these essays compose the first sustained attempt to understand how petroleum has suffused the Western imagination.The contributors to this volume examine the oil culture nexus, beginning with the whale oil culture it replaced and analyzing literature and films such asGiant, Sundown, Bernardo Bertolucci'sLa Via del Petrolio, and Ben Okri's "What the Tapster Saw"; corporate art, museum installations, and contemporary photography; and in apocalyptic visions of environmental disaster and science fiction. By considering oil as both a natural resource and a trope, the authors show how oil's dominance is part of culture rather than an economic or physical necessity.Oil Culturesees beyond oil capitalism to alternative modes of energy production and consumption.Contributors: Georgiana Banita, U of Bamberg; Frederick Buell, Queens College; Gerry Canavan, Marquette U; Melanie Doherty, Wesleyan College; Sarah Frohardt-Lane, Ripon College, Matthew T. Huber, Syracuse U; Dolly Jørgensen, Umeå U; Stephanie LeMenager, U of Oregon; Hanna Musiol, Northeastern U; Chad H. Parker, U of Louisiana at Lafayette; Ruth Salvaggio, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Heidi Scott, Florida International U; Imre Szeman, U of Alberta; Michael Watts, U of California, Berkeley; Jennifer Wenzel, Columbia University; Sheena Wilson, U of Alberta; Rochelle Raineri Zuck, U of Minnesota Duluth; Catherine Zuromskis, U of New Mexico.
• Titolo autorizzato: Oil culture
• ISBN: 9781452949314; 1-4529-4394-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814728303321
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